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Indigenous Mapuche people living in rural areas have to contend with an inferior education as well as a lack of inter-cultural awareness. Students are demanding the state assumes responsibility to provide free education and broader access to education.

The conviction of two Mapuche leaders under the Pinochet-era antiterrorism law in 2003 will be reviewed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding claims of deprivation of liberty without due process.

Mapuche students in Chile have brought the issue of a Mapuche University with a focus on indigenous knowledge and history to the attention of the entire nation, and garnered support from certain Chilean leaders and government officials.

On August 12, 2009 a 24-year-old Mapuche man named Jaime Mendoza Collío was shot and killed by Miguel Patricio Jara Muñoz, a Chilean police officer (carabinero). The shooting occurred in the context of a land dispute over traditional Mapuche territory.

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